#life and times of neon

[local-moonbat]

Uhhh so turns out I need another £65 so that I can start my transition process. Any help would be appreciated

[orangepajamas]

they're letting Harry vandalize something

[tomaturtles]

I thought I was gonna be normal about Evangelion but then I got to Kaworu 

[liverpool-enjoyer]

how could men ever impress me when my standard for love was set by kaworu "i really was born to meet you" nagisa

[nabifilms]

night time, my time.

[youssefguedira]

someday i'll write a long and in depth letterboxd review detailing Why, exactly, le otto montagne hit me the way it did but until that day comes. the thing i feel like i keep coming back to with this movie is specifically the ending and the way it COULD show us all ice and snow and winter, i.e. it's over, it's dead. and i think if the movie were more tragic, which it isn't really to me, it would work, but the thing is we see the ice melting, we see new life, we see things growing again. and part of this is to give us the last shot with the birds, but another part to me is the idea that things will still go on, nothing has changed really, spring will come and then summer and then fall and there will be another winter, and the house will fall into ruin again and it will all continue. but at the same time there is the dead tree, which is dead and isn't coming back. there are some mountains you can't return to etc etc

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09.08.2023 | Yokohama, Japan

[neonleonsmessymindpalace]

February lasted 5 years & March is almost over even though it only started 3 days ago, like -

?????

WHAT is going ON??? :0

[animehouse-moe]

This is just ask for fun...

Favorite female character :

Favorite male character :

Favorite animanga :

Animanga you are currently enjoying :

Animanga that exceeded all your expectations :

Unpopular animanga you really love :

Favorite romance :

Favorite action animanga :

Favorite fantasy :

Favorite sci -fi :

Favorite drama :

Favorite comedy :

Favorite anime movie :

Next in your watch list :

Next in your read list :

Favorite antagonist:

Thanks if you want to answer.....

Oh man, these are always so tough haha. Definitely will be a bit of recency bias, but I'll give it a shot!

Also, for reference, for everything aside from next watch/read, I tried to choose entries that I'd experience both anime and manga from (excluding LNs because I'm picky like that). If I didn't I'd have been stumped on this all week haha.

Favorite female character: Mitsumi Iwakura

Favorite male character: Kenji Kazama (arguably the pinnacle of comedic-slash-classic manga protagonists)

Favorite animanga: Heavenly Delusion? (these sort of end all be all picks are so impossible for me haha)

Animanga you are currently enjoying: 'Tis Time For Torture, Princess

Animanga that exceeded all your expectations: Heavenly Delusion (both initial experience with manga and anime, actually)

Unpopular animanga you really love: D-Frag! (the exclamation is part of the title)

Favorite romance: A Sign of Affection (I know the anime's not done, but Ajia-Do and Yuta Murano's work is too outstanding to discount)

Favorite action: Jujutsu Kaisen (though specifically excluding S2 due to Park's departure)

Favorite fantasy: Made In Abyss (I think even in spite of some of the creator's tendencies, the worldbuilding is just on another level in comparison to other fantasy series)

Favorite Sci-Fi: Neon Genesis Evangelion (there's a lot of choices here)

Favorite Drama: Nana

Favorite Comedy: Uramichi Oniisan (since I already used D-Frag! elsewhere)

Favorite anime movie: Blue Giant (again, so many to choose from)

Next in your watch list: Noir (one of a handful of cel anime to be shot on widescreen 35mm film, so I've been very curious to start it, even though I've been putting it off forever)

Next in your read list: Fruits Basket (re-read), or Requiem of The Rose King (been waiting forever on restocks of the early vols).

[local-moonbat]

Self portrait

[shardofsun]

Hey has anyone ever thought about how messed up IDW Ultra Magnus is from specifically Optimus’s perspective. Like, they were friends. Imagine if your friend died and someone else just. got inside his corpse and kept pretending to be him. And a bunch of people kept doing this for years, and you’ve been friends with so many people all wearing your friend’s body and nobody ever told you. Did he ever notice things were different? Did he ever wonder why his friend kept changing in ways so subtle he couldn’t explain how it felt wrong? Basically what I’m saying is IDW Optimus has been stuck in the world’s most long running horror novel

[tomaturtles]

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Campus Apocalypse - Ch. 20

[exmakina]

Red. ❤

[nerosdayinanime]

uh oh hes not supposed to sleep to heal...

[youssefguedira]

have a little more fencing world champion joe. because it's worlds again and olympics soonish. enjoy

The clock on the nightstand changes from 01:36 to 01:37, and Joe sighs, rolling over to stare up at the ceiling. Nicky, beside him, shifts in his sleep but doesn't wake.

Joe, however, has been awake since at least 12:08, and feels far too restless to sleep. It's almost certainly jet lag: they're in Chicago for a little while, visiting Nile and her family, and largely trying to enjoy the last little bit of free time they have left until training begins again in earnest. Of course, Joe's kit bag is lying open at the foot of the bed, and Nicky's beside it: just because they're not formally training doesn't mean they won't need it at all.

Still, Joe can't sleep. He sighs again, and gives up on trying to do so entirely. Maybe he'll be able to find some time to rest tomorrow, though he doubts it. Nile's got a lot of things she wants to show them, and Joe would ordinarily be thrilled, if he wasn't so tired.

It'll pass, Andy told him, though she doesn't seem to have been affected by it at all. He's almost certain they'll meet her in the morning for breakfast and she'll be exactly as normal, as if they haven't just crossed multiple time zones. Even Nicky, who hadn't struggled nearly as much as Joe had, had begun to slow down some time around midday, but Andy had been fine.

He gets out of bed, careful not to wake Nicky, who's rolled onto his side facing the door. With nothing else to do, Joe makes his way to the little balcony attached to their room, picking up his phone from the nightstand on the way. The sliding door squeals a little when he opens it, but when he looks over at Nicky he hasn't even moved.

While it's certainly quieter than it had been before, the city is nowhere near silent. It's beautiful, though, and Joe takes a picture to send to his sister.

She texts him back immediately. Pretty, but isn't it like the middle of the night for you?

1 am, Joe responds. Jet lag.

His phone lights up with a call then, but not from Amira. He reads the contact name and answers, heart in his throat.

Oof, is Amira's response.

He almost drops his phone when he realises what they're calling him for.

By the time they hang up, his hands are shaking: he stays like that, phone still pressed to his ear even after the call has ended, for at least a few minutes.

Finally, at a loss for what else to do, he lowers his phone and goes back inside. Sits down on the edge of the bed.

The movement is just enough to wake Nicky, who blinks a few times before sliding into awareness all at once, the way he always does. He sits up, leaning against the headboard, pushing his hair out of his eyes. "Joe?" he asks, voice still slightly hoarse from sleep. He frowns when Joe doesn't answer straight away. "Is something wrong?"

"No," Joe says. Fidgets with his phone, screen now dark, still in his hands. "Uh. They want me for the Olympic team."

Nicky is silent for all of a split second before his expression breaks into a wide smile. "Yeah?"

"Yeah." Joe can't keep himself from smiling now, either, as Nicky cups the back of Joe's neck with one hand, leans in to press their foreheads together. Joe closes his eyes.

"Of course they do, Joe," Nicky says then. "You're the best in the world right now. You're going to be incredible."

There are times when that doesn't quite feel real, even if it's been a while.

"You'll come with me?" Joe asks.

"Always," Nicky says. Then he pulls back and kisses Joe's cheek, his forehead, the space between his eyes, until Joe laughs.

"I love you," Nicky tells him.

They'd met fencing épée, of all things. Andy had invited the seven of them – they hadn't quite been friends yet, but Joe had known Quynh for a couple years by then, and Andy too, while Nicky had already known Nile – to train with her and Quynh for a while, and Joe couldn't possibly refuse, because Andy was both his friend and one of the best coaches in the world back then. She'd made them all switch to a weapon they didn't usually use, and Joe and Nicky had picked épée: Joe because he figured it would be easier than restricting his target area to the torso only, and Nicky because épée was far closer to foil than sabre. They'd been about evenly matched, and it had been – well, it had been fun.

Joe had left a week later with Nicky's number in his phone and a small, fluttering hope in his chest. And even if they hadn't kept in touch very well those first few months, when the World Championships came around, and Joe had qualified for the second time, Nicky had joined Andy to meet him at the airport, grinning widely when he caught sight of him.

The rest, as they say, is history.

"I love you too," Joe says.

"You want to tell the others?" Nicky asks.

Joe looks at him for a moment. Looks at the clock. "It's 1 am, Nicky. Andy will kill us both."

Nicky snorts. "In the morning, then?"

"In the morning," Joe agrees.

Neither of them end up going back to sleep until 4 am, and they're both exhausted at breakfast the next morning, but. It's worth it.

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09.08.2023 | Yokohama, Japan